From cyan to magenta
Autonomous or Semi-Autonomous Vehicles Create All Sorts of Challenges, Including in the Area of Communication to the Outside World. Opel Has Therefore Devised A Series of Light Signals, which it is Testing on a Grandland.
You can think what you want of that ‘Opel Visor’ Nose, but that opel family face does sacrifice room for all sorts of light-related experiments. After all, there is Plenty of Space in that huge bar, and moreover, the element in the Grandland is Already Standardly Filled with a Continuous Light Bar and an Illuminated Logo. That logo is particularly central today, because in an experimental grandland, decorated in collaboration with the tu darmstadt, that logo can be replaced by a series of signals. To do this, the Developers First Considered CareFully which Signals Are Useful. Then they thought about how the message could be best be conveyed, and for this, color is crucial.
Firstly, there is the color that indicates that a car is driving autonomous. That is turquoise (cyan), which after Mercedes now seems to be the new Standard for this application. It is of course important that color is used that have not previously leg used on cars, to avoid confusion with existing light signals. The Cyan-Colored Lights Can Be Seen All Around the Place of the Direction Indicators When Driving Automatically, AltheHeYth They Burn Contuously and Not Flashing.
This Opel Can also Give Signals to Pedestrians. If the ai installed by the car recognizes a zebra crossing with a waiting pedestrian, the car automatically brakes If Possible. Then the Front Light Bar Lights Up in ‘Magenta’, Supplemented by A Warning That Replaces The Central Opel Logo. Once the car has come to a timely and complete stop, the whole thing turns green and another symbol in place of the logo indicates that it is safe to cross. Neat, Right?
Incidentally, The Grandland from this Story is not a full -time electric model, which you would expect with a vision of the future. Could that in itself also be a hidden signal?